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Fraser, J. C. (2017, October).
The Privatization of Neighborhood Governance and the Production of Urban
Space. Paper presented at the 5
th
Land and Water Symposium at Kent State University, Kent, OH.
Fraser, J. C. (2015, November). The Future of Public Housing. Paper presented at Amherst University,
Amherst, MA.
Fraser, J. C. (2011, October). Food Deserts and Other Imagined Geographies. Paper presented at the
Research Integrity Conference, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN.
Fraser, J. C. (2010, September). Developing Effective Floodplain Policy in the United States. Paper
presented at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
Fraser, J. C. (2010, April). Gasses and Grasses: The impact of residential lawn fertilizers on water quality
and health in the Richland Creek watershed. Paper presented at the Community Research Partners
meeting, Nashville, TN.
Fraser, J. C. (2009, May). Lawns and Watersheds. Paper presented at the Richland Creek Watershed
Alliance annual meeting, Nashville, TN.
Fraser, J. C. (2009, March). The Changing Role of Nonprofits for Urban Redevelopment. Paper presented
at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
Fraser, J. C. (2009, February). Can Mixed-Income Housing Ameliorate Poverty. Paper presented at the
Center for Community Engagement at Miami
University-Ohio, Cincinnati, OH.
Fraser, J. C. (2009, November). What kind of mixed-income housing and for what reasons? Paper
presented at the School of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.
Oakley, D. A., & Fraser, J. C. (2016, September). U.S. Public Housing Transformations and the Housing
Publics Lost in Transition. Paper presented at the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia.
Fraser, J. C. (2006, September). Mitigating Repetitive Loss Properties: the significance of local capacity
and community-based approaches. Paper presented at the North Carolina Emergency Management
Agency, Raleigh, NC.
Fraser, J. C. (2006, October). Mitigating Repetitive Loss Flood Properties. Paper presented at the Human
and Ecological Resilience conference at Brown University, Providence, RI.
Fraser, J. C. (2005, April). How to build a research center. Paper presented at Middle Tennessee State
University, Murfreesboro, TN.
Conference Presentations
Logic might suggest that conference presentations should be located in this space, but I have 91 entries
located at the end of the document in order to foreground teaching and service.
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TEACHING
Brief Pedagogical Statement
My orientation and philosophy toward teaching begins with a belief in equality in the sense that
students, professors, as well as the communities in which I research all create and offer valuable forms
of knowledge, and that we all have the ability – given the enabling conditions – to generate novel and
significant advances to fields of inquiry. In terms of classes, independent studies, as well as with
research groups comprised of students and myself, my approach is to facilitate mutual learning through
participatory activities that often result in various forms of academic and public scholarship being
produced. These range from paper presentations to written pieces that form part of a student’s
portfolio of accomplishments.
Courses Taught
In addition to independent studies, as well as master’s and doctoral offerings related to theses and
dissertations, the primary areas in which I teach include urban studies, environmental studies, and social
inequality offerings, as well as courses related to the conduct of research.
Urban Studies
1.
Urban Geography
2.
Urban Geography & Planning
3.
Urban Geography & Community Development
4.
Critical Geographical Thought
5.
Gentrification & Urbanization
6.
Social Justice and the City
7.
Urban Sociology
Environmental Studies
1.
Urbanization & the Environment
2.
Sustainability, Justice & the City
3.
Human Dimensions of Environmental Change
4.
Human & Physical Dimensions of Flooding
Social Inequality
1.
Social Inequality
2.
Theories of Inequality
3.
Social Stratification
4.
Social Problems
5.
Community Development
Research
1.
Critical Methods & Epistemology
2.
Research Methodology
3.
Advanced Research Methods
4.
Research Design in Geography
5.
Qualitative Methods in Social Research
6.
Development Project, Design & Evaluation